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xv.), only one is treated by Pocock. Three new South African 

 species of Solpuga are described. A very useful feature of this 

 paper is the synoptic table of the species of Solpuga known to 

 the author, as it is to this genus that nearly all the South 

 African Solifugce belong. 



" On the Arachnida taken in the Transvaal and in Nyassa- 

 land by Mr. W. L. Distant and Dr. Percy Kendall." Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), i., No. 4, pp. 308-321. 



Eight scorpions, 1 Pedipalp, 2 Solpugce, and 15 Aranea r 

 from the Transvaal ; also a few from Durban and Mashonaland. 

 Five are described as new, viz., 2 Lycosce and 3 Mygale 

 spiders. 



Thor, Sig. " Capobates sarsi, en ny hydrachnide fra Kap, Syd- 

 Afrika." Archiv. for Math, og Naturvidenskab., xx., No. 5, 

 4 pp., 1 pi., 1898. 



Description and figures of a new genus and species of water- 

 mite [Capobates sarsi), captured in a pond on the Cape Flats, 

 near Cape Town, and sent to Professor Sars by the South 

 African Museum. 



Cambridge, F. O. P. "On the Cteniform Spiders of Africa, Arabia, 

 and Syria." Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1898, part i., pp. 13-32, 

 pis. 3 and 4. 



Contains a complete list of the Cteniclce which have been 

 described from South Africa, together with descriptions of four 

 new species from East London, Mashonaland, and Natal. 



PuRCELii, F. " Descriptions of New South African Scorpions in the 

 Collection of the South African Museum." Ann. S. A. Mus., 

 i., part i., pp. 1-32, pis. 1-4. 



Eleven new species of Opisthophthalmus and one of Para- 

 buthus are described, and seven of them are figured. The 

 paper concludes with a synoptic table for that portion of the 

 genus Opisthophthalmus in which the median groove of the 

 carapace is forked in front. 



